Intelligence without Representation

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Intelligence without Representation

• Review of Rodney Brooks article

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Background

• What were the limitations of traditional AI?
• What is the use of studying simple intelligent
  systems?
• What approach does Rodney Brooks advocate for
  developing intelligent systems?
• What conclusion is reached ?
• What hypothesis is made ?

3
Evolution of intelligence

• List the key events in the evolution of
  intelligence.
• Based on this time line, what conclusions can be
  drawn about the difficulty of intelligence?

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Abstaction

• Why is it hard for AI to succeed?
• Why is it easy for AI to succeed?
• How did the idea that representation is the key
  problem in AI arise?
• What is abstraction? Discuss why it is the real
  challenge in AI.

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Incremental Intelligence

• Describe Brooks notion of Creatures
• What are the requirements of these Creatures
• What are the features of decomposition by
  function? Identify strengths and weaknesses of
  the approach
• What is decomposition by activity? Strengths and
  Weaknesses ?

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Representations?

• Where are the representations?
• What are some of the common themes of the
  Creatures
• Arent some of the internal variables
  representations?

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Subsumption Methodolgy

• Briefly describe the subsumption methodology
• Isnt this connectionism or neural networks?
• Is it a rule based system or a knowledge based
  sytem?
• How large can a subsumption system be?
• Is learning possible?

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Artificial Flight Analogy

• Briefly describe the Artificial Flight Analogy
• What insight does it give to the field of AI?